Metropolis Articles

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (top); Eric Cantona, Ken Loach on the set of Looking for Eric (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways (bottom) Below are weekend box-office figures (via Box Office Mojo) for a couple of dozen movies currently playing in North America in less than 1,000 theaters. Still doing well are Juan Jose [...]

Annette Bening (left) in Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother and Child (top); Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (bottom) Starring Academy Award nominees Annette Bening and Naomi Watts, the psychological family drama Mother and Child opened on Mother’s Day weekend to $44.4K in four theaters as per estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The film’s $11,100 per theater average isn’t bad, but it’s not all that fantastic [...]

"Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Metropolis," reads a newsletter from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. "The incredible discovery of long-lost footage from director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece. Found in a vault in Buenos Aires, the complete film has been reconstructed and restored by the F.W. Murnau Foundation." The restored 1927 silent classic starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Gustav Fröhlich had its premiere at [...]

Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American [...]